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2. West Side Story - Wikipedia

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   West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet , the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial , blue-collar neighborhood.

3. Key West Agreement - Wikipedia

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   The Key West Agreement is the colloquial name for the policy paper Functions of the Armed Forces and the Joint Chiefs of Staff drafted by James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense. Its most prominent feature was an outline for the division of air assets between the Army, Navy, and the newly created Air Force which, with ...

4. Western Union (schooner) - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. May 16, 1984. Western Union is a historic schooner located in Key West, Florida, United States. She is berthed at the Key West Bight at 202 William Street. Western Union is the last surviving authentic working tall ship built in Florida. On May 16, 1984, Western Union was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.

5. German submarine U-2513 - Wikipedia

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   Design. Like all Type XXI U-boats, U-2513 had a displacement of 1,621 tonnes (1,595 long tons) when at the surface and 1,819 tonnes (1,790 long tons) while submerged. She had a total length of 76.70 m (251 ft 8 in) ( o/a ), a beam of 8 m (26 ft 3 in), and a draught of 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in). [3] The submarine was powered by two MAN SE supercharged ...

6. Sandy Cornish - Wikipedia

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   Nationality (legal) American. Occupation (s) Farmer, civic leader. Spouse. Lillah Cornish. Sandy Cornish (1793–1869) was an African American farmer, businessperson, and civic leader in Key West, Florida. As a formerly enslaved man who purchased his freedom, he publicly maimed himself to prevent being returned to slavery.

7. Steamboats of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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   Much later, starting in the early 1980s, a number of replica steamboats have been built, for use as tour boats in river cruise service on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Although still configured as sternwheelers, they are non-steam-driven boats or ships, also called motor vessels, powered instead by diesel engines.